Highend CPU's vs High End Graphics cards

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RTCW

 Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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This game is powered with a highly optimized Quake III engine.  We test the graphics card with high detail settings and of course a heavy duty time-demo.

Powered by the Quake III Arena engine, the Wolfenstein universe explodes with the kind of epic environments, A.I., firepower and cinematic effects that only a game created by true masters can deliver. The dark reich's closing in. The time to act is now. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

A highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions (OSA) tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Himmler believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as Heinrich. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all.

That being said, RTCW boasts very nice textures, impressive effects and fantastic character models.

Well now, one of the most CPU dependable games in our benchmark suite has to be RTCW, het makes sense it's the oldest game.

RTCW 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
x800Pro 128 127 127 127
x800Pro 3800+ 168 168 168 165
x800XT 128 128 128 128
x800XT 3800+ 169 169 169 169
6800GT 125 135 135 135
6800GT 3800+ 174 174 174 174
6800U 135 135 135 135
6800U 3800+ 174 174 174 174

Hah, and you know what .. we still have CPU limitation :) Things will toughen a bit up when we make it more difficult for the graphics card, so we again enable a plethora of image quality settings:

4xAA 8xAF 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
x800Pro 127 127 121 107
x800Pro 3800+ 168 164 144 116
x800XT 128 128 126 121
x800XT 3800+ 168 168 160 142
6800GT 135 135 134 133
6800GT 3800+ 173 176 171 164
6800U 135 135 134 133
6800U 3800+ 174 173 172 166

Nope, that won't do it. This game is eaten alive by all high-end graphics cards and that makes sense as it is aging. It remains a fantastic game though.

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